Space X launch with UAE astronaut cancels at last moment; inexperience or technical fault?
With just a split second to blast off, NASA astronauts, one Russian cosmonaut and one astronaut from the United Arab Emirates called off their launch.
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SpaceX at last moment had to call off Monday’s attempt to launch four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA.
Strapped into the capsule atop the Falcon rocket were two NASA astronauts, one Russian cosmonaut and one astronaut from the United Arab Emirates.
NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg, were accompanied by the UAE's Sultan Al-Neyadi and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.
The countdown was halted with just two minutes remaining until liftoff from Kennedy Space Center.
The pretext provided was the problem in the engine ignition system but, was that a valid pretext or shall we say Bowen realized the astronaut from UAE in his crew who entered with the back of his government's money was incapable?
SpaceX did not immediately say when it would try again.
The next attempt could be delayed as well because poor weather forecast has already been announced as next pretext.
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